[Marketing] [Proposal] Auto-publish CommBlog posts to main @Fedora Twitter Account

[Ryan Lerch]

On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 11:31 AM, Joe Brockmeier <jzb at redhat.com> wrote:

> On 03/28/2016 03:04 PM, Remy DeCausemaker wrote:
> >
> > It has been suggested that we adjust the community blog's jetpack
> > plugin to post to the main @Fedora twitter account, so that we are not
> > dividing our content. The only possible issue that we have here is
> > that there is occasional cross-promotion that occurs between Magazine
> > and CommBlog. When we have big announcements--we post pointer or
> > wrapper articles between the two. This would create some overlap or
> > echo within the twitter feed.
> >
> > Even with this echo consideration in mind, I would propose to the mktg
> > list that we auto-publish posts from the CommBlog to the main @Fedora
> > twitter account, now that we've established our readership and
> > editorial process a bit further.
> >
> > This will *significantly* improve the visibility of our contributor
> > focused content published on CommBlog, as well as increase the
> > frequency of posts to the @Fedora twitter account (roughly 2-10
> > articles per week.)
> >
> > Thank you all for your time and attention to this proposal, and votes
> > and discussions are welcome here.
>
> We've had two -1s for auto-posting, so I'd suggest a bit of a modification:
>
> 1) Let everything from Community Blog auto-post to @fedoracommunity, but
> make the profile clear that's exactly what it is. No effort to build
> following there but if it grows organically, spiffy.
>
> 2) Explicitly add Community Blog to sources for human-curated content
> going to @fedora.
>

This is basically where we currently are at the moment. The @fedora feed
currently already has had many human-curated posts linking to magazine,
community blog and other blogs talking about Fedora, so not sure what the
change here is.

cheers,
ryanlerch

>
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>
> Also, can we get a sound-off on the humans who currently *are* curating
> content? It feels a bit wild west to me at the moment, as I'm never
> quite sure if there's anybody at the switch on a particular day.
>
> And is anybody tending to @replies to @fedora?
>
> Thanks,
>
> jzb
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